There are some things to love and hate with this. The school that I still believe makes no sense for this conference naturally shows up as a game 1 road trip for Carthage. WC gets a long trip as well week 1 but that should be a much anticipated match with Lebanon that I think a lot of people may be excited about. Joplin at KPoo week one sounds fun.
Functionally I'm not sure how much difference it will make but Repmo and Willard may not be thrilled about being designated "west". In crossover they have basically zero travel except the one week Willard goes to Waynesville so that helps.
Probably just my bias but I see all the springfield and OC teams were well taken care of opening week while the 4 around Joplin all get road trips of at least an hour, Webb and Carthage get 2+ hours.
Question - will crossover opponents always be the same or different every year? Ideally I'd like to see these all as home/home series then in 2yrs re-evaluate all the crossovers to mix them up where it makes sense.
Overall for football this is pretty good minus waynesville but I'm still not enthusiastic about mandatory games in other sports with all these plus the 2 other SPS. For people with multiple kids in other sports this will be a lot of week day travel, worse than the previous COC. At least for the schools down here.
